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Under CSA 2010, SMS will replace the Safety Status (SafeStat) measurement system as FMCSA’s assessment tool to identify high-risk motor carriers requiring interventions to improve safety on our nation’s roads.  SMS will evaluate the safety of individual motor carriers by considering all safety-based roadside inspection violations, not just out-of service violations as today, as well as State-reported crashes, using 24 months of performance data.  SMS will assess each carrier’s safety performance in each of the seven Behavior Analysis and Safety Improvement Categories (BASICs).  The SMS calculates a measure for each BASIC by combining the time and severity weighted violations/crashes (more recent violations are weighted more heavily) normalized by exposure (e.g., number of power units (PUs) OR number of relevant inspections). Applying a similar approach to that used in SafeStat, the SMS converts each carrier’s BASIC measures into percentiles based on rank relative to peers. SMS will be updated monthly.